[mod. f. Gr. κρᾱνίον skull (CRANIO-) + -λογία: see -LOGY. In mod.F. craniologie.]

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  † 1.  The study of the configuration of the skull as indicating the comparative development of the ‘organs’ or faculties; now known as PHRENOLOGY.

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1806.  Med. Jrnl., XV. March, heading, An Account of Dr. Gall’s System of Craniology.

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1843.  Borrow, Bible in Spain, xl. (1872), 233. He had a villainously formed head according to all the rules of craniology.

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  2.  The study of the size, shape and character of the skulls of various races, as a part of anthropology.

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1851.  D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), I. ix. 293. The craniology of the later tumuli.

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1883.  Tylor, in Nature, 3 May, 8. The mixture of races … in Europe makes European craniology a study of extreme difficulty.

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